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WO1988000906A1
WO1988000906A1 PCT/GB1987/000534 GB8700534W WO8800906A1 WO 1988000906 A1 WO1988000906 A1 WO 1988000906A1 GB 8700534 W GB8700534 W GB 8700534W WO 8800906 A1 WO8800906 A1 WO 8800906A1
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Farouk Husain
Edwin Mowforth
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64F—GROUND OR AIRCRAFT-CARRIER-DECK INSTALLATIONS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH AIRCRAFT; DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, ASSEMBLING, CLEANING, MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING AIRCRAFT, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HANDLING, TRANSPORTING, TESTING OR INSPECTING AIRCRAFT COMPONENTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B64F1/00—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations
    • B64F1/12—Ground or aircraft-carrier-deck installations for anchoring aircraft
    • B64F1/14—Towers or masts for mooring airships or balloons

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  • This invention relates to the ground handling of an airship at an operating base.
  • Airships generally operate in a condition of either neutral or negative buoyancy.
  • a neutrally buoyant airship can hover and hence can operate from a small ground area, but time is lost in manoeuvring at airspeeds too low for precise aerodynamic control in unsteady conditions, and in decelerating to and accelerating from the hovering mode.
  • a negatively buoyant or 'heavy' airship cannot hover but must take off and land with an extended ground run which greatly increases the base area requirement, although control problems are less severe. If passengers are to be carried using either mode of operation, a further time penalty is inherent in disembarkation and embarkation, particularly where the mooring facilities are such that a 'one in, one out' sequence must be used to prevent the airship from rising. These factors may not be significant when airship applications permit relatively relaxed scheduling, but become critical if the airship is to be used for high-density scheduled passenger movement.
  • This invention is intended to facilitate rapid passenger flow through an airship terminal using a small ground area and permitting operation over an adequate range of weather conditions.
  • the invention provides an operating platform which can be rotated upon a circular track for the purpose of aligning it with the wind direction and may incorporate additional articulation to raise, lower or tilt the platform for particular modes of operation and which also incorporates facilities for arresting, mooring and launching a suitably-fitted airship.
  • the platform further incorporates means of handling a loaded passenger module such that the module may be detached from or attached to the moored airship and transferred to and from a suitable position for the disembarkation and embarkation of passengers independently of the position of the airship.
  • FIG. 1 shows an airship suitably equipped for use with this system:
  • Figure 2 shows in simplified form ah elevation of the platform:
  • Figure 3 shows in simplified form a partial plan of the platform.
  • the airship 1 alights upon and takes off from a platform 2 which is mounted upon a circular track 3 so that it may be rotated by a suitable power unit about a vertical axis 4 and hence aligned with the wind direction.
  • the airship carries passengers or cargo in a module 5 which may be readily attached to or detached from the airship body, and is further fitted with a retractable arrester hook 6.
  • a sunken rail 7 in the surface of the platform guides an arrester link 8 attached by cable to an arrester unit 9, and an accelerator link 10 attached by cable to an accelerator unit 11. Both links are attached to carriages running in the rail 7 so that upward loading may be resisted.
  • Two further sunken rails 12 guide a mooring carriage 13 which carries four retractable mooring stays 14 and i ⁇ *corporates a mooring link 15 running in the rail 7.
  • the mooring carriage may be connected to the arrester link 8 or may be moved separately by a separate power unit which is not shown.
  • a forward module lift 16 and an.aft module lift 17 transfer loaded modules 5 between the airship and the module rails 18, by means of which a suspended module 21 may be moved within the body of the platform using the powered forward module shunt 19 or the aft module shunt 20, running on the same suspension rails 18.
  • a third module lift 22 transfers loaded modules between the rails 18 and ground level, rotating the module in transit to align its axis either with the platform axis or with that of the ground reception unit through which passengers or cargo enter or leave the module.
  • the operational sequence commences with the platform aligned with the wind and the airship approaching into wind with the arrester hook 6 extended to engage a cable frame (not shown) and hence the arrester link 8.
  • the arrester unit 9 thereby retards the airship so that it comes to rest over the forwardmodule lift 16, final registration being adjusted through movable wheel pads which are not shown.
  • the arrester link 8 is connected to the mooring link 15 and the mooring stays 14 are extended and coupled to the body of the airship to hold it in position.
  • the incoming module is now detached from the airship and transferred by the forward module lift 16 to the suspension rails 18, and the arrester unit 9 is activated as a winch to draw the airship back above the aft module lift 17, drawing with it the accelerator link 10 which has meanwhile been attached to the airship body.
  • the aft module lift now transfers the outgoing module from the suspension rails 18 to the airship.
  • arrester link 8 and the mooring stays 14 are disconnected from the airship which then takes off under the combined impulse of its own power unit and the pull of the accelerator link 10, maintained by the accelerator unit 11.
  • the outgoing module after loading at ground level, was raised by the module lift 22 to engage the suspension rails and was then moved by the aft module shunt 20 into a suitable position to await elevation to the airship.
  • the incoming module was then moved by the forward module shunt 19 to the module lift 22 and lowered to ground level for unloading.

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  • Aviation & Aerospace Engineering (AREA)
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  • Auxiliary Methods And Devices For Loading And Unloading (AREA)
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Abstract

Une plateforme (2) repose sur une piste circulaire (3) de façon à pouvoir être alignée avec le vent, ce qui facilite la manutention d'un aéronef (1) équipé en conséquence. La plateforme comprend un dispositif d'arrêt (8, 9) pour arrêter l'aéronef à un endroit spécifique, un système d'amarrage (13, 14, 15) pour retenir l'aéronef en place lors d'opérations ultérieures de manutention, des élévateurs et piste de transfert (16, 17, 18) pour enlever le module chargé (5) de l'aéronef et le remplacer par un deuxième module chargé, un autre élévateur (22) pour transporter les modules entre la plateforme et une station sur le sol de chargement et de déchargement, et un dispositif accélérateur (10, 11) pour accélérer l'aéronef jusqu'à la vitesse de décollage dans les limites de la longueur disponible de la plateforme.
PCT/GB1987/000534 1986-07-28 1987-07-28 Systeme de manutention d'aeronefs Ceased WO1988000906A1 (fr)

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AT87904909T ATE64575T1 (de) 1986-07-28 1987-07-28 Vorrichtung zur behandlung von luftschiffen.
DE8787904909T DE3770945D1 (de) 1986-07-28 1987-07-28 Vorrichtung zur behandlung von luftschiffen.

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GB868618319A GB8618319D0 (en) 1986-07-28 1986-07-28 Airship handling system

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JPH01503772A (ja) 1989-12-21
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GB2198399A (en) 1988-06-15
GB8717891D0 (en) 1987-09-03
US5143323A (en) 1992-09-01
AU7757887A (en) 1988-02-24
EP0315634B1 (fr) 1991-06-19

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